Amrita Narlikar

Amrita Narlikar is an academic specializing in international relations, international negotiations, the political economy of international trade, and the role of rising powers in global politics.

Career Amrita Narlikar was awarded her MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University (Balliol College), on an Inlaks Scholarship and was appointed to a junior research fellowship at St John's College, Oxford. She also has a master's degree from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a bachelor's degree in history from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

Narlikar was a junior research fellow at St John's College, Oxford from 1999 to 2003, and continued as a research associate in the Oxford Centre for International Studies until 2014. After a year as a lecturer at the University of Exeter, she became a lecturer, senior lecturer, reader, and full professor at the University of Cambridge from 2004 to 2015, and a fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge from 2008 to 2015. India Rising: A Multilayered Analysis of Ideas, Interests, and Institutions (co-edited), Oxford University Press, 2022 Poverty Narratives and Power Paradoxes in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, 2020 Bargaining with a Rising India: Lessons from the Mahabharata (co-authored), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization (co-edited), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 Deadlocks in Multilateral Negotiations: Causes and Solutions (edited), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 New Powers: How to Become One and How to Manage Them (2010) The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction (2005) International Trade and Developing Countries: Bargaining Coalitions in the GATT & WTO (2004)

Personal life Narlikar is the daughter of author Aruna Narlikar and physicist Anant V. Narlikar, and the granddaughter of physicist Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar.